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  • Running on the Right to Vote
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Running on the Right to Vote By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Thursday 22 September 2005
    There are two kinds of people in American politics today: those who know our basic right to vote and have every vote counted is imperiled, and those who have no idea such a basic right is at risk.
    Those who know our voting rights are at risk - from electronic touch-screen voting machines that use unverified software, offer no paper ballots, transfer data via modem to hackable (…)

  • Information on the results of the early national elections in Germany of 18 September, 2005
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    These elections have been called by the German Federal President on the initiative of chancellor Schröder one year before the term of the red green government ended. Confronted with a dramatic fall in popularity and a long series of lost lander elections because of his neo-liberal economic and social policies, its brutal dismantling of the German welfare state, the chancellor took what he saw as the last chance to receive the voters’ mandate to stay in power. SPD and Greens made their (…)

  • New Venezuelan Parliament Focuses on Socialist Project
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caracas, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) The governing Bloque de Cambio (Bloc of Change) formalized the socialist nature of the National Assembly as polls closed for Venezuelan parliamentary elections on Monday.
    President Hugo Chavez referred to the strategic importance of the legislature to start strengthening the process "toward socialism" by 2006.
    Chavez fully trusts in the overwhelming support of most Venezuelans supporting the social policy effective since 1999 to improve the distribution of (…)

  • New Zealand election stalemate exposes deep social divisions
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Braddock
    Provisional results from Saturday’s New Zealand elections have put neither of the two major parties, Labour or National, in a position to form a government. The incumbent Labour Party leads by a narrow margin of 23,000 votes with 218,000 special votes still to be counted. As it stands, the result gives Labour 40.7 percent of the vote (50 seats) and National 39.6 percent (49 seats). Both would need to stitch together a shaky coalition with more than one of the minor parties (…)

  • German election : a clear rejection of right-wing policies
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Schwarz
    The result of the election for the German parliament (Bundestag) on Sunday can be interpreted in only one way: policies based on welfare cuts and the re-division of social wealth to benefit the rich have met with bitter resistance from the German population and been vigorously rejected.
    Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had arranged the early election in order to create a stable parliamentary majority for the implementation of his thoroughly unpopular program of (…)

  • Leftists win elections in Norway
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OSLO, NORWAY — Norway was poised for a power shift after the left-leaning opposition won a majority of seats in parliament with pledges to spend more of the nation’s oil wealth on welfare, official election results showed early today.
    With more than 96 percent of votes counted, a three-party coalition led by the Labor Party had won 88 seats in the 169-seat assembly, enough to oust the center-right government.
    Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, 58, a Christian Democrat who campaigned on (…)

  • 2008 Presidential Candidate Offers Letter of Support for Cindy Sheehan
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CRAWFORD - Cindy Sheehan has received a letter of support from Karl W. B. Schwarz, a former Republican, who earlier this year announced his independent candidacy for President, subject to the 2008 election.
    Schwarz is author of the book "One Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas."
    He wrote to Sheehan: "I have been watching with admiration your brave stand against President Bush and his refusal, and even fear, of speaking with any of the persons who have lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan on (…)

  • Berlin : US bases undermine sovereignty, says Lafontaine
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin
    Oskar Lafontaine, one of two lead candidates for the Left party at the German election, has called into question the presence of US military bases in the country, saying they undermine Germany’s sovereignty.
    Addressing the congress of the party, an alliance of Social Democratic dissidents and neo-Communists, in Berlin on Saturday, Mr Lafontaine said: "We are not a sovereign country; as long as the US can operate from here, we are a participant in the Iraq (…)

  • Left Party pushes itself as alternative to German status quo
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Rising, Associated Press
    BERLIN - Leaders of Germany’s new party - combining ex-communists and left-wing defectors from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats - pitched themselves on Saturday as an alternative to the status quo.
    The Left Party has emerged as a serious force before Sept. 18 elections, sapping strength from Schroeder’s Social Democrats. The party’s attacks on Schroeder’s social welfare reform programs, its pledges to raise unemployment insurance and seek (…)

  • MILLENNIUM CRISIS + E-MAIL from another PLANET +
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Millennium Crisis E-Mail from another Planet An FBI report titled, Megiddo ( site of Armageddon ) was a controversial Millennium terrorist report prepared in 1999 and sent to law enforcement to prepare them for possible acts of violence in 2000. It was controversial because it fingered Christian fundamentalist groups, the agency claimed they were still sensitive about the implications of the Oklahoma city bombings. From a distant point in space, it appears the FBI did not take into (…)